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- Comment on Dentist the Menace 5 days ago:
A concept doesn’t become acceptable just because the French have a term for it. Usually that’s a red flag.
- Comment on Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law 6 days ago:
One day your Internet search history is going to traumatize a police officer.
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 6 days ago:
Is commander in chief an active military position?
I think it’s specifically not a military position. The president being a civilian is how in theory the military must operate under civilian control.
- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 1 week ago:
I didn’t watch the whole thing but Paul’s shots didn’t even seem like they had any power behind them. He won on points obviously because Tyson was drained but it felt like even old man Tyson could have just stood there and tanked those weak-ass punches.
Disclaimer: all I know about boxing I learned from Rocky movies.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 week ago:
I home they own Jones’ likeness to the point where they can give DJs the rights to remix his shouts into something of value.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 3 weeks ago:
In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don’t want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you.
- Comment on Pee posting? 4 weeks ago:
Still a better love story than twilight.
- Comment on Mom of the year 4 weeks ago:
NGL if HBO made this into a 6 part miniseries I would watch. I would hate myself as I watched but I would watch.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Time Cube is much older than AI bruh .
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Here’s one for your time : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Everytime he’s asked for any kind of reasoning or evidence he goes straight to victimhood and how “mainstream archeology” doesn’t want you to know the real truth.
- Comment on Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says 2 months ago:
He was never going to go Mars. The first trips to Mars will be extremely dangerous - think the early Viking settlements of North America (they all died). There will of course be far more systematic prep for mars, but the the environment is also far far more hostile. These oligarchs like themselves too much to take risks like that.
- Comment on AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support 2 months ago:
The wise thing is to not offer perpetual licenses in the first place. You can’t predict the state of your business in 10 years let alone beyond that. Why make commitments that? Marketing of course. So if they’re going to raise capital that way (by one-time revenue from sales of perpetual licenses) then they can’t just decide that perpetual doesn’t mean perpetual anymore. All in all this will come down to a legal duel between expensive legal teams.
- Comment on How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump 2 months ago:
The problem with induction (including everything you cited there) is down to implementation, not the tech itself. The difference in UX between a bad induction stove and a good one is far far greater than the difference between a bad and good gas stove. A bad induction stove is just… really bad.
After using a great induction stove (with knobs, knobs are mandatory) I can’t ever go back. Yeah you get 5000 watts of heat with gas most of that just heats your kitchen, face, and pot handles. It only tangentially interacts with the food you’re trying to cook.
- Comment on As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For 2 months ago:
The fact that this tweet caused their stock price to dive really shows what a joke the stock market is .
- Comment on Diversity 2 months ago:
Id like to see if with less pixels, thanks.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAA 2 months ago:
Don’t they also have to fuck at some point in those 4 weeks?
- Comment on Check the facts 2 months ago:
Downvotes literally don’t affect your life at all so bravery really doesn’t come into it.
- Comment on Check the facts 2 months ago:
Gonna show your work or…?
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 3 months ago:
If you teach a dog to dunk I guarantee you’ll find a market for it.
- Comment on X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum 3 months ago:
Did you have 3 strokes while typing that comment?
- Comment on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation 3 months ago:
- Comment on Olympic Sneaking: Qualifying Round 3 months ago:
Subjectively judged sports have existed at the Olympics forever (artistic gymnastics, figure skating, etc). The problem here appears to be that the judging and scoring format actually stifles the performers rather than pushing them to new heights. Maybe that will change, maybe not. For now the best break dancing definitely doesn’t happen at the Olympics .
- Comment on I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x 3 months ago:
It’s highly likely that you had one or more bad-but-not-dead cables (like a weak termination) that was limiting your speed. By swapping everything out you fixed the problem. Cat 5e to 8 definitely shouldn’t have caused that much if a jump (if any).
- Comment on Microsoft Ruined Windows 3 months ago:
The power argument is true, but secondary. The primary reasons for this are ultimately financial. What has been added to windows after windows 7 that was actually beneficial to the user? The answer is nothing, within a small margin of error. That’s why upgrades to W10 and now 11 are as forced as possible. It’s not like those uogrades have anything that people actually need or want. Since they can’t produce anything more for windows that people would actually want to pay for, all that is left is adding in telemetry/spyware and setting your data.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 3 months ago:
The distinction between that and a malicious hack consists entirely of intent .
- Comment on Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets 4 months ago:
Ticketmaster is worse than scalpers.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 4 months ago:
I just looked it up and…
SF6 has 23,500 times greater global warming potential (GWP) than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (over a 100-year time-frame) but exists in relatively minor concentrations in the atmosphere. Its concentration in Earth’s troposphere reached 11.50 parts per trillion (ppt) in October 2023, rising at 0.37 ppt/year.[8] The increase since 1980 is driven in large part by the expanding electric power sector, including fugitive emissions from banks of SF6 gas contained in its medium- and high-voltage switchgear. Uses in magnesium, aluminium, and electronics manufacturing also hastened atmospheric growth.[9] The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in 2005, is supposed to limit emissions of this gas. In a somewhat nebulous way it has been included as part of the carbon emission trading scheme. In some countries this has led to the defunction of entire industries.[10]
Umm wtf? Why are we selling this stuff in compressed air cans ? Even methane is “only” 30x more potent than CO2 .
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 4 months ago:
Because that’s the cooling system required to run the thing. It requires more toxic coolant, that will eventually end up in the ocean, than several hundred supercomputer megaclusters and sucks more power than a thousand suburbs.
Congrats on getting upvotes for this utter bullshit, none of which is substantiated in the article you linked.
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure I saw this in a 1988 reader’s digest in my dentist’s waiting room while sitting there in 1998.